Re:Plug’nPwn – Connect to Jailbreak
by spacedcowboy on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @10:41AM
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selling is the difference. If you sell to someone, you're opening the market to, well, everyone. If it takes technical expertise to do it, that itself is a sufficient limit for Apple to not really care unless you poke the bear.
Maybe Wired is a sufficiently large distribution that the same thing applies, but if these guys had just released the details, I suspect Apple would just quietly patch stuff along the lines above. Selling it means they poked the bear. With a burning torch.
They do, actually. Someone tried selling computers pre-configured with the correct hackintosh configs and Apple shut them down via a lawsuit[0]. They also got Wired to take down a video on 'how to hackintosh'[1], however the theme with these two events was that they occurred pre-2010. Given that a multitude of people have now created hackintosh tutorials, the only thing Apple would C&D now is someone doing what Psystar did and selling pre-configured machines.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation
1: https://www.zdnet.com/article/breaking-apple-suing-wired-for...